Episodes from this category include: Hopscotch (Part 1), Hopscotch (Part 2), and Wherever You Jump Off You Have Someplace to Land.

]]> http://americanmosaic.org/on-the-road/feed/ 0 http://americanmosaic.org/hot-topics/ http://americanmosaic.org/hot-topics/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:55:11 +0000 freeriverpress http://americanmosaic.org/?p=40 [...]]]> This series focuses on topics such as homelessness, American Indian poverty, drug trafficking, the Palestinian-Israeli turmoil (as it impacts Americans), the arts in education, and more. While some of our other series cover topics that are definitely “hot,” this series has much to do with social justice and community well-being.

For its first two-and-a-half years, Free River Press was devoted to creating a small body of writings by Nashville homeless and issued six chapbooks by homeless writers. In 2004, FRP conducted a workshop for Arabs and Jews in New York and New Jersey and published their writings in Violence in the Holy Land: Witnessing the Conflict in the Middle East (2004).

More recently FRP has conducted interviews on the Pine Ridge Reservation with the Oglala Lakota.

Pictured above: Chris Crawford, author of “Lucky Lacy”, and Robert Wolf. At the time of this photo, Mr. Crawford was homeless.

Episodes in this category include: Local Foods, Mothers & Daughters, and Nashville James.

Some stories from this series first appeared in Dirt & Duty: How I Came to Love the Land and Loathe Farming by Murray Hudson (Free River Press 1992); Fishin’, Fightin’, Feedin’ and Farmin’ by Jack Hudson (Free River Press 2000), and American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk (Oxford University Press 1999).

Pictured at right: Writing workshop participants at Stax Recording Studio in Memphis, TN.

Episodes from this category include: Part 1: Farming & Rural Life, Part 2: Farming & Folkways, Part 3: Lucky Lacy, and Part 4: MS Delta Mix.

Episodes in this category include: part 1: La Vecina Mala, part 2: Santa Fe Mix Up, part 3: Cowboys & Cowgirls, part 4 Wild West & Urban America, and part 5 Women of the West.

This is both a record of vanishing folkways and a look at the emergent people-centered agriculture that is helping reinvigorate communities. Interviews with the writers occasionally supplement their readings. The writings were developed in workshops that were conducted in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa from 1991 to 2009 and issued by Free River Press in Heartland Portrait: Stories from the Rural Midwest.

Episodes from this category include: Farm Crisis I & II, Icons & Emblems, Simple Times, Commercial Fishing on the Mississippi, Mississippi River Hazards, Stories from Clermont, and Rural & Village Youth.

Right now “American Mosaic” is distributed to Pacifica Affiliates via, www.audioport.org. We are currently in the process of publishing the series on PRX! Check out our PRX Series page HERE. By the way, www.freeriverpress.org contains additional information on Robert Wolf and Free River Press.

Please contact us if you are airing “American Mosaic” in a regular time-slot! We’d love to record a custom promo for you, as well as add your station’s information to this website.

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Why You Should Run “American Mosaic.”

Robert Wolf and Free River Press have consistently garnered praise from critics across the country.

“Bob Wolf’s approach to oral history is unique . . . His work is more than a lament, it is a battle cry.”
— Studs Terkel

“Not unlike the fictional character in the Broadway musical, The Music Man, Bob Wolf has also traveled from town to town, encouraging people to express themselves, writing their chapter of the American story.” —Jerry Bowen, “CBS Sunday Morning.”

 “Robert Wolf has gathered a chorus of unique and powerful voices in these pages…This book is filled with stories about people and places most of us barely know and about ways of life that seem to be vanishing before our eyes. This is a book of tremendous energy and passion. In these pages, you can hear America sing.” — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune

“Heartland Portrait is more than a narrative; in many ways it is the conscience that we need to remember, cherish and perhaps restore, that makes us a human community.”— Dave Warren, Former Deputy Director, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

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“American Mosaic” features stories and voices from the Midwest, Southwest, Mississippi Delta, New York, and Chicago. The voices of farmers, towboat captains, commercial fishermen, ranchers, jazz musicians. Corporate public relations specialists, suburban housewives, actors, social workers. Men and women from villages and cities. In short, a cross-section of America. Most of the recordings in “American Mosaic” feature the original authors, but some are also read by actors, like noted stage & film veteran Robert Swan.

The linocuts on these pages are the work of Chicago singer/songwriter/aritst Bonnie Koloc. Samples of Bonnie’s CDs can be heard at www.bonniekoloc.com.

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Carl Cooley

Carl Cooley is a junior at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa majoring in Communication Studies. He volunteers as a DJ at KPVL community radio in Decorah and at KWLC at Luther, where he also works as the recording studio technician. He has found his passion in all things radio, mostly because of the great music and people he discovers through it. Carl is a production editor for FRP’s “American Mosaic.”

Dylan Syverson

Dylan Syverson grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, and holds degrees in music technology and English. He has worked as a writer, editor, and photographer for various student publications, including Luther College’s Chips. An avid musician and sound engineer, he acts currently as half of the correspondence electro-duo Scholl. He lives in Decorah and is a recording engineer and production editor for American Mosaic.

Joe Thor

Joe Thor is a junior at Luther College majoring in history and classics.  He was born and raised in Dubuque, IA. He has been involved with KWLC 1240 AM (Luther College radio) for two years and hosts a rock show on KWLC Wednesday nights at 11PM. After college he hopes to attend graduate school with a focus on ancient history.